Fighting Ole Man Time SS Log

[mcclamic]

My name is Mike, a 41 year old who realized that my daughter would have suitors soon that I need to intimidate. Also didn't like the way my strength was decreasing.

Guy at work recommended Starting Strength so I started at end of May kind of doing the program to fight ole man time. Kind of means
No gomad and, as it turns out,
Too short of rest period (~1:30 minutes btwn sets)

Starting Monday, I upped it to 3:00 rest between the work sets to extend LP. I'll start tracking my progress as I move forward on the novice program. I will move to 4:30 minute rest after hitting the next wall before trying a reset. The shorter intervals were attempt to keep metabolism up and to keep the workout within the lunch hour, which is when I hit the gym.

Starting Point as of 10-31-2011 with the previous rest intervals
BW 241 lb (BF% around 20 according to scale, so who knows?)

Deads => 1x425lbx5
Squats => 3x370lbx5
Press => 3x165lbx5
Incline Bench => 3x235lbx5 (regular bench causes too much pain to train)
Power Cleans => 5x185lbx3
Chins 7,6,6 but fluctuates

[Mark E. Hurling]

Welcome geezling. What's the problem you're having with regular benches?

[Grangers710]

Hey Mike, I'm 29 but have 3 daughters. Starting early myself on the intimidation factor! welcome to SS I'm new myself.

[yorick]

mcclamic & Grangers - welcome to both of you.

I with you on the daughters and intimidation factor deal.

[slowjoe]

Welcome.

You should be able to intimidate plenty with those numbers!

[mcclamic]

Thanks for the greetings. I hurt my shoulder (rotator cuff) playing baseball when I was younger coupled with bench pressing that bordered on insanity (both in amount and lack complementary back work) means I get really bad pain in about a workout. Inclines don't hurt it so I take the easy road.

[mcclamic]

11-02-2011 Workout

BW:244

Squats
1x135x10 Warm-Up
1x315x3
3x380x5 Used belt as back was still sore from snow shoveling. All in all felt pretty good. 3min rest between worksets

Presses
1x95x10 Warm-Up
1x135x3
3x175x5 Used belt, which helped considerably, 3 min rest between worksets

Power Cleans
1x135x8
1x155x3
1x190x3 Felt terrible, back was complaining so went down
2x185x3 First set was good, second set not great so called it a day, 3 min rest between worksets

Chins
BWx6,5,4 Running late so went back to 1:30 min rest

[bob g]

Nicely done, geezling. That's gettin' it done.

[mcclamic]

11-04-2011 Workout

BW:245

Squats
1x135x10 Warm-Up
1x315x3
3x385x5,3,4 Forgot my belt so tried to go without. Form was iffy on first set, great for the the first two on second and great on the last until for some unknown reason I dropped my right elbow after the fourth rep. Would have continued if younger but stopped. 3min rest between worksets

Incline Bench
1x115x10 Warm-Up
1x2055x3
3x240x5 Pr felt like there was more in there but shall maintain the 5lb per workout bump. 3 min rest between worksets

Deads
1x225x8
1x3151x5
1x435x5 Need to find that belt

[Mike Mantzouris]

Welcome Fellow Geezling. You are putting up some big numbers. That would intimidate me for sure!